"For he who is least among you all--he is the greatest." (Luke 9:48)
This is new to me, but I decided to try out the AudioBlogger feature available to blogger users today. I wrote out the text for this post also, but if you can listen to my voice saying it if you want. Anyhow, here it is.
I often here talk about what sin is. Some define it as some type of force and other nonsense. Sin is simply this, it is disobedience against what God has commanded. Disobedience against His Word.
In Genesis, Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They were tempted by Satan, who was in the form of a snake. The listened to Satan and ate some fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When God saw their disobedience He forced them to leave Eden. This was how sin entered the world. It the first time man had committed a sin.
Romans 5:12-13 says this:
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-- for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
We gain our knowledge of what is sin through God's Word, through his law. It entered because of they did not obey God. Every time you disobey God you sin. Period.
God bless.